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Of justice we have already spoken; and the notion already given

of it may be confirmed by common instances. Will the just state

or the just individual steal, lie, commit adultery, or be guilty

of impiety to gods and men? 'No.' And is not the reason of this

that the several principles, whether in the state or in the

individual, do their own business? And justice is the quality

which makes just men and just states. Moreover, our old division

of labour, which required that there should be one man for one

use, was a dream or anticipation of what was to follow; and that

dream has now been realized in justice, which begins by binding

together the three chords of the soul, and then acts harmoniously

in every relation of life.